 Husband, though, John Wheatley, said, well, we're going to have a meeting. I'm going to gather together 18 of the most prominent men in Boston, several of which who were ministers. That included Reverend Samuel Cooper, James Baldwin, the governor of Massachusetts at the time. Many very large families who came to this meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to determine whether or not she had written this poetry. Just imagine that. You're 18 years old.